Saints Among Us: The Work of Mother Teresa

Calcutta presents a harrowing vision.
The destitute, the skin-and-bones starving, the leprous and the dying
seem to be concentrated there as nowhere else in Indiaor the world.
Their numbers, swollen by past waves of refugees from Bangladesh, grow
daily. At least 200,000 of them live in the streets, building tiny
fires to cook their scraps of food, defecating at curbstones, curling
up in their cotton rags against a wall to sleepand often to die. Out
of this scene of unremitting human desolation has come an extraordinary
message of love and hope. Its...